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Lactantius
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Introductory Notice To Lactantius.
[1203] Ventri ac gulæ ingeras.
[1204] Sed earum modum non tenent. [Augustine’s anthropology better.]
[1205] De Offic., ii. 11.
[1206] Per patibulum.
Chap. XVIII.—Of Some Commands of God, and of Patience.
[1207] [Homini amico ac familiari non est mentiri meum.]
[1208] Matt. v. 44; Luke vi. 28; Rom. xii. 14.
[1209] i.e., Jesus Christ the Son of God = the Word of God.
[1210] Rom. xii. 19; Heb. x. 30.
[1211] Animi sui complicitam notionem evolvere.
[1212] [Nisi lacessitus injuria.]
[1213] Comparem. Injustice and impatience are here represented as a pair of gladiators well matched against each other.
[1214] Pecudes, including horses and cattle.
[1215] Caninam, i.e., resembling a dog, cutting.
[1216] The allusion is to the Philippics of Cicero, a title borrowed from Demosthenes.
[1217] Sustentatio sui.
[1218] Quoad fieri potest. Others read, “quod fieri potest.”
[1219] Maturius sopiatur.
[1221] Cicero, Pro Ligar., 12.
Chap. XIX.—Of the Affections and Their Use; And of the Three Furies.
[1222] [Rather, indignation, cupidity, and concupiscence, answering to our author’s “ira, cupiditas, libido.” The difference involved in this choice of words, I shall have occasion to point out.]
[1223] [Here he treats the “three furies” as not in themselves vices, but implanted for good purposes, and becoming “diseases” only when they pass the limits he now defines. Hence, while indignation is virtuous anger, it is not a disease; cupidity, while amounting to honest thrift, is not evil; and concupiscence, until it becomes “evil concupiscence” (επιθυμίαν κακὴν, Col. iii. 5), is but natural appetite, working to good ends.]
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